Research at the Department of Historical Studies mainly focuses on Swedish and Scandinavian issues, but the Mediterranean region and areas outside of Europe, such as the Incan Empire, are also represented.
Burning Bones in the Greek Iron Age
Contact: Helene Whittaker
Dress Codes in Ancient Rome. Clothing in a socio-cultural context
Contact: Lena Larsson Lovén
Nubian Textiles at the Museum Gustavianum in Uppsala
Contact: Maciej Szymaszek
Power walks: Escorted movements in the cityscape of ancient Rome
Contact: Ida Östenberg
The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition. Excavations at the Late Cypriote city of Hala Sultan Tekke: The study of the earliest occupation.
Contact: Peter M. Fischer
The Swedish Jordan Expedition. Excavations at the city of Tall Abu al-Kharaz (Jabesh Gilead): Philistine traces in Transjordan - The early Iron Age remains.
Contact: Peter M. Fischer
The Swedish Palestine Expedition. Excavations at the city of Tell el-Ajjul, Gaza. The Middle and Late Bronze Age remains - Cultural synchronisation and absolute chronological studies.
Contact: Peter M. Fischer
Tracing the Provenance of Ancient Egyptian Textiles: Tove Alm's Collection
Contact: Maciej Szymaszek
War and Remembrance. Memories of Defeat in Ancient Rome
Contact: Ida Östenberg
A Secret Cultural Heritage: remains of the Cold War in the county of Västergötland
Contact: Tony Axelsson, Anders Gustafsson, Håkan Karlsson, Maria Persson
Archaeological and historical-geographical investigation of the localization of Villa de San Cristóbal de La Habana, Cuba
Contact: Håkan Karlsson, Anders Gustafsson
AREA-projektet (Archives of the European Archaeology).
Contact: Jarl Nordbladh
Authenticity, staging and communication. A comparative analysis of the public presentation of rock art at ten world-heritage sites at five continents
Contact: Anders Gustafsson, Håkan Karlsson
Bronze Age wool economy
Contact: Sophie Bergerbrant, Serena Sabatini, Karin M. Frei
Cultivated Wilderness: Socio-economic development and environmental change in pre-Columbian Amazonia
Contact: Per Stenborg
Forging Identities: the Mobility of Culture in Bronze Age Europe. A Marie Curie training networks project
Contact: Johan Ling
Digital Time Travels
Contact: Per Stenborg
Extraction of copper in Sweden during the Bronze Age? Possibility, myth or reality?
Contact: Johan Ling
Neolithic Lifeways (VR, Swedish Research Council financed project)
Contact: Karl-Göran Sjögren & Tony Axelsson
On the Nature of Maglemose. Meeting Methodologies and their Outcomes from Georg Sarauw to Eva David and beyond
Contact: Tove Hjørungdal
Pre-Columbian land use and settlement pattern in Amazonia
Contact: Per Stenborg
Scandinavia's role in the copper networks of Europe in the 2nd millenium BC
Contact: Johan Ling
The Early Modern Town. Local and Global (Vetenskapsrådet, Swedish Reserach Council)
Contact: Per Cornell
The Swedish Rock Art Research Archives (SHFA)
Contact: Kristian Kristiansen, Ulf Bertilsson
The Rise. Travels, transmissions and transformations in temperate northern Europe during the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC: the rise of Bronze Age societies
Contact: Kristian Kristiansen
The Rise II. Towards a new European Prehistory. Integrating aDNA, isotopic investigations, language and archaeology to reinterpret key processes of change in the prehistory of Europe
Contact: Kristian Kristiansen
World Crisis from Below: The after-use of the fearsome heritage at the former Soviet Missile Site at Santa Cruz de los Pinos, Cuba
Contact: Håkan Karlsson
Swedish Women On-line (SWO)
Contact: Maria Sjöberg
Borderline Missionary. Risk, Fear, Human Security, and Emotional Communities on the Baltic Rim (ca. 1000-1250) (VR, Swedish Research Council)
Contact: Wojtek Jezierski
Critical Heritage and the Environmental Humanities text seminar, convenor
Contact: Christine Hansen
Medieval Nordic Laws Project
For more information: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/medieval-nordic-laws/
Contact: Thomas Lindkvist
The History of Orthopaedic Medicine/Orthopaedic Manipulative Therapy – a manipulated one?
Contact: Anders Ottosson
The market of Philantropy or the market’s Philantropy?
Contact: Anders Ottosson
A Jewish Web of Textiles and Connections 1782-1850
Contact: Anna Brismark, Pia Lundkvist
The database Sweden 1570-1805 - population, agriculture, land ownership
Contact: Lennart Andersson Palm, Martin Linde
Steering Styrene. The Swedish plastic hull industry and the implementation of environmental legislation 1951–2007: institutional and industrial change.
Contact: Lars Nyström
